Archive for: June 2009

This week in America three celebrities passed away without warning. Reviews on the life of pop culture icon Michael Jackson was at the top of most news programs along with some questions about the manner of his death. Does our …

We have been reporting on the clash between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and it’s California subsidiary the United Healthcare Workers (UHW). We have talked of the battle between the two, how the SEIU has strong-armed or dismissed the …

I just watched the classic movie â€œHigh Noonâ€, AGAIN! Gary Cooper played a brave sheriff who brought law and order to his town. As one woman said, â€œHe made it safe for a decent woman to walk down the streetâ€. …

More and more people are dissatisfied with the direction in which our leaders are taking us. We may not be geniusesâ€¦ not that our leaders are … but itâ€™s been obvious for decades that thereâ€™s something wrong with our government. …

Polls. I am not a big believer in them. One of the biggest problems with polls are the questions. Poll questions are often practically useless in relaying any real, usable facts. Let’s take the first one asked by Charlie …

While the news media feverishly cover the untimely death of music icon Michael Jackson and the sex scandal involving a Republican governor in South Carolina, President Barack Obama on Thursday revealed his plans to reform US immigration policy. During the …

Cleaning up our mess(es) is possible, but itâ€™ll be painful. How painful depends on whether logic and common sense are used to find solutions. So far, I havenâ€™t seen much of either. And with each of the gazillion presidential news …

I recently found myself in the childhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas. It was a tremendous experience to hear the creek of the floorboards, to see the handcrafted furniture, and to feel the texture of the wallpaper …

For the Iranian people everything begins on June 12, 2009, with their 10th presidential election since the 1979 Islamic Revolution: the challenge was between the outgoing president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the oppositionâ€™s leader, Hossein Moussavi.

How â€˜bout them Uighurs! (Pronounced: we-grrrrs, in case you care.) They sought, and received, training in the East Turkestan Islamic Movementâ€™s paramilitary camps. Uh, huhâ€¦ thatâ€™s that al-Qaeda affiliate that has been officially designated by the U.S., under U.S. law, …

I am wondering when the euthanasia folks are going to start touting this one? I mean, it sure seemed to me as if the most caring, most civil, most intelligent president evah just said that healthcare could be cheaper if …

The time for a nationwide protest against our â€œlawmakersâ€ has comeâ€”I am no longer referring to them as our representatives as they have stopped representing We-the-People. The volume of calls placed on Friday to the US Capitol switchboard and our …

Yesterday, June 25, to commemorate the day North Korean soldiers invaded their southern neighbor and began the Korean War, an anti-America rally was held in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Approximately 100,000 citizens were present as the communist …

With so much coverage of the current debate on Barack Obama’s attempt to impose nationalized healthcare on America, it may seem that little else can be said on the subject. Yet it needs to be discussed, and its manifold dangers …

ALIPAC is rallying Americans against Obama’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty plans that are being discussed with Congressional leaders in the White House today because a path to citizenship for millions of illegals would bring more illegal immigration to America and …